Purpose of groups like news.admin.net-abuse.usenet?

I've seen groups like news.admin.net-abuse.usenet,
news.admin.net-abuse.misc but what are they for? What is "spam
cancelling"?

Thanks

 

wrote in

Google

http://www.byshenk.net/ive.been.spammed.html#4.1

http://www.gatago.com/news/admin/censorship/16200651.html

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=what+is+spam+cancelling&btnG=G
oogle+Search

 

I suggest you start here <http://www.killfile.org/~tskirvin/nana/> and
here <http://www.killfile.org/~tskirvin/faqs/cancel.html> - and
lurk in the active groups to see what actually goes on there. (What
prompted someone to create a newsgroup is not necessarily what the group
ends up being used for).

Google Groups can tell you how 'active' a group is and who posts there,
etc. eg
<http://groups.google.co.uk/groups/dir?hl=en&sel=33593814&expand=1>.

Another web search finds likely-looking information about 'spam cancel'
<http://search.ask.com/web?q=spam+cancel&qsrc=0&o=0>.

 

No spammers defending their right to spam, any more, or are they
included in one or both of "kooks" and "trolls"?

 

I recently did, in fact. But I didn't stay long enough to get a good
feel for the distribution of the various subsets.